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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
John Sims #40881 11/02/14 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted By: John Sims
Big D methinks

I'm confident you solved it, John, but I've never heard that phrase "Big D" before. Another cryptic clue to confirm, please.

Re: What In The World Happened Here?
saltydog #40882 11/02/14 10:12 PM
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Confirmed solve, Salty, but I think John got there first.

Re: What In The World Happened Here?
SierraNevada #40883 11/02/14 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted By: John Sims
Big D methinks

I'm confident you solved it, John, but I've never heard that phrase "Big D" before. Another cryptic clue to confirm, please.


I believe the words to the song go something like:
Big D little a double L as

Also, for those of you that have traveled to Texas there is only one "Big D".

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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
SierraNevada #40885 11/02/14 11:57 PM
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I know! I know!

Those steps in the bottom left of the picture were the clue for a previous WITWHH.


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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
SierraNevada #40886 11/03/14 12:01 AM
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Puzzle Solve: What In The World Happened Here? CLXXIII (173):

Don't bring a dog to this island, Felix. If the ground starts rocking, head for hills.



You can go out to this island on a catamaran.


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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
John Sims #40887 11/03/14 07:33 AM
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Big D methinks

I'm confident you solved it, John, but I've never heard that phrase "Big D" before. Another cryptic clue to confirm, please.


I believe the words to the song go something like:
Big D little a double L as

Also, for those of you that have traveled to Texas there is only one "Big D".

Confirmed.

I've been to Texas. Except for Austin, yeah, seems like one big "dump" for the most part. Sorry, Texicans, that was just too easy to pass up from California. smile

This tragedy will be in the news a lot in a couple weeks, 50 years. [Edit: Nobody caught this? What a goofy mistake from an engineer. It's going to be 51 yrs this year. It was a historical error, not a math error.]

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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
wagga #40888 11/03/14 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted By: wagga
[quote=SierraNevada]Puzzle Solve: What In The World Happened Here? CLXXIII (173):

You can go out to this island on a catamaran.


Nice clue, Wagga. You crack me up, doggone it.

I actually solved this one with visual clues and hunches, scrolling around in Google Earth. Then I figured out the rest. Who has time for that, right? Once you know you're close, it's addicting.

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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
SierraNevada #40891 11/03/14 12:03 PM
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Awright, for the rest of us, how about explaining the historical error with the Big D puzzle.

Re: What In The World Happened Here?
Steve C #40892 11/03/14 02:34 PM
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Awright, for the rest of us, how about explaining the historical error with the Big D puzzle.


Time and Date of the event was: 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, so 51 years is correct (as of Nov. 22, 2014). Not sure why Sierra thought his "50 years" was a "historical" error, unless he just thought/remembered the date as 1964.

Re: What In The World Happened Here?
John Sims #40893 11/03/14 02:46 PM
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SN, just because you are an engineer and a repository of book knowledge doesn't mean you get everything perfect.


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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
wagga #40896 11/03/14 07:36 PM
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Another good one, Wagga. I was going on memory thinking it was 1964. Memory can be a dangerous thing at my age.

Re: What In The World Happened Here?
SierraNevada #40898 11/03/14 08:38 PM
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Puzzle: What in the World Happened Here? CLXXV (175)


Re: What In The World Happened Here?
SierraNevada #40899 11/03/14 10:31 PM
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Puzzle: What in the World Happened Here? CLXXVI (176)


Re: What In The World Happened Here?
John Sims #40900 11/03/14 10:43 PM
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Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee . . . where Martin Luther King was assassinated (Room 306) on April 4, 1968. (Today the National Civil Rights Museum.)

(I guess these puzzles are easy to solve if you've been there, especially if you've personally taken essentially the same picture.)

Re: What In The World Happened Here?
SierraNevada #40901 11/04/14 01:57 AM
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Originally Posted By: SierraNevada
Puzzle: What in the World Happened Here? CLXXV (175)



A con of visiting this island is the lag time getting there. And no canaries.


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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
wagga #40902 11/04/14 06:44 AM
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Confirmed solve, Wagga. No escaping the fact that I'm having a hard time challenging you.

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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
SierraNevada #40905 11/04/14 11:38 PM
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Big D methinks

I'm confident you solved it, John, but I've never heard that phrase "Big D" before. Another cryptic clue to confirm, please.


Big D definitely identifies the city. But the question is "What happened?"

You decide.

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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
saltydog #40910 11/06/14 04:52 AM
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Puzzle: What In The World Happened Here? CCXXXIX (239):



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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
wagga #40937 11/11/14 01:03 AM
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CCXXXIX (239)

Do we need another clue?


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Re: What In The World Happened Here?
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Yes please.

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